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Service Learning Project: GEO Books

Service Learning Project: GEO Books. By: Wagner, Richard, and Paige. NEED:. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite. Children's Healthcare Video. SERVICE:. Why?. Creating books to be donated!.

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Service Learning Project: GEO Books

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  1. Service Learning Project:GEO Books By: Wagner, Richard, and Paige

  2. NEED: • Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite Children's Healthcare Video

  3. SERVICE: Why? Creating books to be donated! • To help a local hospital by creating and donating some amazing books to their children’s library. • To help your local community by promoting science education. • To help yourself by practicing your writing and becoming a creative writer. • To help yourself by reviewing the science content.

  4. The Standards Addressed • S6CS1. Students will explore the importance of curiosity, honesty, openness, and skepticism in science and will exhibit these traits in their own efforts to understand how the world works. • S6CS10. Students will enhance reading in all curriculum areas by: a. Reading in All Curriculum Areas b. Discussing books c. Building vocabulary knowledge • S6E5. Students will investigate the scientific view of how the earth’s surface is formed. a. Compare and contrast the Earth’s crust, mantle, and core including temperature, density, and composition. f. Explain the effects of physical processes (plate tectonics, erosion, deposition, volcanic eruption, gravity) on geological features including oceans (composition, currents, and tides). • Middle Years Program curriculum - Areas of interaction The five areas of interaction are: approaches to learning, community and service, human ingenuity, environments, and health and social education.

  5. LEARNING: Each period created a book about a specific topic within the study of geology.

  6. Book Pages • You need to make one page for your class geobook. • After you get your general topic, each student will need to choose a specific topic. • After you know what you will write about, you need to decide on how you will write. So, you will need to choose a particular writing style. http://ksdl.ksbe.edu/writingresource/typeswriting.html • Creative writing (i.e. poems ) • Cause/effect writing • Comparison/contrast writing • Narrative writing • Descriptive writing • Informative writing • Persuasive writing

  7. Timeline • WEEK 1: • Pre-Writing • WEEK 2: • Drafting • WEEK 3: • Revising & Proofreading 1. Peer Review 2. Edited paper • WEEK 4: • Drawing • WEEK 5: • Publishing

  8. Topic For Each Period’s Book Period 1 (Inside the Earth) Period 2 (Theory of Plate Tectonics) Period 3 (Earthquakes) Period 4 (Volcanoes) Period 5 (Deforming the Earth’s Crust)

  9. Writing Process 1. Prewriting • Choosing a topic • Research your topic • Organizing the information (i.e. brainstorming) 2. Drafting • Practice your writing 3. Revising • Improve your writing • Share your writing with others 4. Editing/Proofreading • Check your writing for mistakes in spelling and grammar • Drawing 5. Publishing • Pages are mailed and books are made

  10. Prewriting

  11. Drafting

  12. WRITE • Put the information you researched into your own words. • Write sentences and paragraphs even if they are not perfect. • Read what you have written and judge if it says what you mean. • Show it to others and ask for suggestions.

  13. EARTHQUAKE • Every time the world shakes, I think.About all those lostRubble crashing down. Blanketing the masses.Terror fixed in the hearts of their loved ones.Holding on to dear hope.Questions in their minds that they are too afraid to askUnderneath the collapse the answer liesAn answer that no one wants to hear.KobeEarthquake.

  14. Revision

  15. MAKE IT BETTER • Read what you have written again. • Think about what others said about it. • Rearrange words or sentences. • Take out or add parts. • Replace overused or unclear words. • Read your writing aloud to be sure it flows smoothly.

  16. Improve your writing byshare your writing with others

  17. Proofreading

  18. MAKE IT CORRECT • Be sure all sentences are complete. • Correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. • Change words that are not used correctly. • Have someone check your work. • Recopy it correctly and neatly. • Make sure you have 40 or less words. • Only color with markers.

  19. Publishing

  20. Congratulate yourself on a job well done!

  21. Assessing:

  22. Reflections… Student reflections from Edmodo: Prompt: What is the most important thing you learned while making the GeoBook? Jatoria S. - The Most Important Thing That I Learned About Making The Geo Books Are Editing, Revising, And Going Back And checking MY Work. D'angelo R. - Out of all I think one of the challenges was figuring out how to make a poem using 40 words. I also wonder how the kids feel at the hospital. Kennedi M. - I learned that there are many ways to get your message out other than yelling and screaming. You can calmly talk or write a Geobook. Prompt: If we were to do another book project, how can we make it better next time? Haya A. - more words, because its really hard when you write 40 words and you have one word left you need to add in your paragraph. Jerry G. - have more words so we can tell more about the subject

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